India: Day 5 – The D Train
Penguin August 28th, 2007
I didn’t sleep well. The D train woke me up around 2 AM to let some off. I woke up again at 6 for the early commuters. Wenhai and I took turns dropping. It got to the point where I decided it would be a good idea to take some Levaquin. I normally don’t like taking medication, unless I really have to. But since our nutrition was already pretty poor, I didn’t want things to get worse.
Either taking the Levaquin was the best idea or the worst. I already started feeling nautious, so I wasn’t sure how I would be the rest of the day.
When we got to the office, we sat down with Hamadri to try and come up with a plan of action for our remaining time. When we had come, we didn’t expect to work with the new software or the new server.
There had been some question about the need to move to SQL Server in the first place. It turns out that Hamadri’s organization had grown to the point where certain collection points were too far away. It wouldn’t be practical to drive the receipts back for entry. What he wanted, was to create a server and have the these connect remotely to update the server. This poses a new set of problems.
In either case, there was some argument between Emmy and I about what we could and what we should do until Technosoft came on Monday. She was very insistent on documenting the process and sitting with them to see how they did everything. From my perspective, the software was changing, so until we saw it, there wasn’t much we could do.
The move from Access to SQL Server wouldn’t change the underlying data structure, but it would change the way that the software interfaced with the data. The problems that they had would either be fixed, be the same, or new problems would arise.
Because of the uncertainty, it would be difficult to create a concrete plan of action. Instead, my recommendation was to teach them how to check the software for bugs and to report it back to Technosoft.
In the mean time, we could still check the reports against their existing database to see if they were correct, even if the data was not.
After our discussion, I started feeling chills. I was pretty sure I was coming down with a fever. It wasn’t long before I had to lie down and rest.
That was pretty much the rest of my day. Eventually, I got home and went to sleep. The D train really took me for a ride.
-Penguin
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